DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. CockroachDB vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. CockroachDB vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.cockroachlabs.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Cockroach Labs

Baidu

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2018

2011

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Groovy
Java
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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